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Caro Diario [Dear Diary] **** (1993, Nanni Moretti, Renato Carpentieri) – Classic Movie Review 3054

Writer-director Nanni Moretti directs himself playing himself in his witty 1993 ironically wry look at life in three chapters like diary entries with personal stories and reflections. (1) Moretti travels around Rome on his Vespa, admiring […]

Nov, 13

L’Enfant Sauvage [The Wild Child] ***** (1969, François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Cargol) – Classic Movie Review 3016

Director François Truffaut’s 1969 masterwork is a superbly handled, brilliantly evocative re-creation of the 1790s true-life story of Doctor Jean Itard, the behavioural scientist who tames and teaches Victor de l’Aveyron (Jean-Pierre Cargol), a feral boy […]

Oct, 29

The Program *** (2015, Ben Foster, Jesse Plemons, Lee Pace, Chris O’Dowd, Dustin Hoffman) – Movie Review

Ben Foster is good as cyclist Lance Armstrong, who never stops cycling – or lying, apparently. ‘I have never tested positive’, he says positively as he categorically denies drug-taking over and over again. Foster is […]

Oct, 15

Shanghai Express ***** (1932, Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Warner Oland, Anna May Wong, Eugene Pallette) – Movie Review 2950

Director Josef von Sternberg’s richly enjoyable 1932 romantic adventure again stars his protégée Marlene Dietrich, who appears on her finest form as a notorious ‘lady of the sleeping cars’, Shanghai Lil. The infamously loose woman […]

Oct, 03

Taste of Fear [Scream of Fear] **** (1961, Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis, Christopher Lee, Leonard Sachs) – Classic Movie Review 2894

Director Seth Holt’s 1961 British horror thriller stars Susan Strasberg as Penny Appleby, a wheelchair-confined young socialite who insists that she keeps seeing her father’s dead body when she returns to his estate after ten years. […]

Sep, 08

Awakenings **** (1990, Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller, Max von Sydow) – Classic Movie Review 2868

Director Penny Marshall’s true-story 1990 drama stars Robin Williams as a timid doctor, who, along with a kindly nurse (Julie Kavner), awakes a group of patients in a Bronx hospital from a sleep-like trance. As […]

Aug, 31

Count Yorga, Vampire *** (1970, Robert Quarry, Roger Perry, Michael Murphy, Judith Lang, Michael Macready, Donna Anders) – Classic Movie Review 2833

Writer-director Bob Kelljan’s 1970 horror movie Count Yorga, Vampire is a contemporary version of the Dracula tale, neatly relocated to Los Angeles. Robert Quarry stars as the visiting Count Yorga who pesters the life out […]

Aug, 21

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